Ive run som awful races: two 90+ degree LA Marathons, another was Las Vegas in 2003 with 50+ mph headwinds on the point to point couse thanks to a desert wind storm. One of the worst though was CIM in 2001. Headwinds, rain, it was brutal!!!

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:That's got to be terribly discouraging, putting in months of work then facing no possibility of a good time.

After watching the weather all week I thought it could have been worse. No lightening, just a lot of rain that was steady until 2 min after I finished... Of course.

The wind was the big factor and going south it was in your face @ 35+ mph and that crap hurt, felt like light hail. At least that only went on for 3-4 miles as I recall... But it was all a blur, literally as I wear glasses. I felt like I was running at night for at least the first hour.

I don't know about anyone else, but I felt my fitness was the best it has been in some time and I ran ~5 min (or 2.5%) slower than I thought I could.

Ran the race this morning. That was tough. Winds were very strong at the beginning and then again after mile 6 (which is why you see decent splits for the first 6 miles). Miles 7-9 were about 20-30 seconds slower than miles 2-6. Rain picked up at around mile 10 and felt like hail.

Lots of people dropping out. Fun course, I can see how it is pretty fast when the weather cooperates, but it felt like a fight from the start.

Kevin52 wrote:[quote]Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:That's got to be terribly discouraging, putting in months of work then facing no possibility of a good time.[quote]

After watching the weather all week I thought it could have been worse. No lightening, just a lot of rain that was steady until 2 min after I finished... Of course.

The wind was the big factor and going south it was in your face @ 35+ mph and that crap hurt, felt like light hail. At least that only went on for 3-4 miles as I recall... But it was all a blur, literally as I wear glasses. I felt like I was running at night for at least the first hour.

I don't know about anyone else, but I felt my fitness was the best it has been in some time and I ran ~5 min (or 2.5%) slower than I thought I could.

Given the conditions, missing your goal by 5 minutes sounds like a succesful race.

The more I see I think you are right. Have to agree with "ran the race" it felt like a fight for me early too, so I tossed the goal out the window and just tried not too fight it too much in the first half.

Sounds like it was worse for the fast people with the worst of the storm blowing through before I got there.

I ran it. Luckily, it was somewhat warm. If that same rain and wind came on a cold day, it would have been much worse with many probably getting hypothermia. Even so, with it being as warm as it was, it was still tough and quite an experience.

I ran a 3:04:44, but would have run a sub-3 on a dry cold day. Several runners at the finish were also estimating they would have been 5 minutes faster if they weren't running in a car wash in a wind tunnel!